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Lisa Bjurwald (born 24 December 1978) is a Swedish journalist and writer. She has worked for Expo between 2006 and 2011, she was editorial writer for Svenska Dagbladet in 2007 and Dagens Nyheter between 2008 and 2009. She has also been a writer for Expressen newspaper. As of 2016 she is part-owner and Chairman of the Board for Medievärlden.
In 2010 one of her reports won the European parliaments journalist prize. In 2013 she received the Teskedsordens book prize for her book Skrivbordskrigarna - Hur extrema krafter utnyttjar internet.
In an editorial for Dagens Nyheter in the Summer of 2008 she criticized the Swedish blog world. Bjurwalds has written a chapter called "Låt SVT börja om på ruta ett – och lära av BBC:s öppenhet" in the Timbro magazine antologhy Varför public service? in 2008. She has also written the Timbro-report Den ömtåliga plantan about SVT.